GET /users/{id}

Get User by ID

Retrieve detailed information about a specific user by their unique identifier including profile and metadata

Overview

Retrieves detailed information about a specific user by their ID.

Path Parameters

id required

integer

The unique identifier of the user to retrieve

Response

id integer

Unique identifier for the user

name string

Full name of the user

username string

Unique username

email string

Email address

address object

Physical address of the user

street string

Street address

suite string

Apartment or suite number

city string

City name

zipcode string

Postal code

geo object

Geographic coordinates (lat, lng)

phone string

Phone number

website string

Personal website URL

company object

Error Responses

Status	Description
`404`	User not found - the specified ID does not exist

curl -X GET "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users/1"

const response = await fetch("https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users/1");
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get("https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users/1")
print(response.json())

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "Leanne Graham",
  "username": "Bret",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "address": {
    "street": "Kulas Light",
    "suite": "Apt. 556",
    "city": "Gwenborough",
    "zipcode": "92998-3874",
    "geo": {
      "lat": "-37.3159",
      "lng": "81.1496"
    }
  },
  "phone": "1-770-736-8031 x56442",
  "website": "hildegard.org",
  "company": {
    "name": "Romaguera-Crona",
    "catchPhrase": "Multi-layered client-server neural-net",
    "bs": "harness real-time e-markets"
  }
}

{
  "error": "User not found"
}

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Request

curl -X GET "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users/{id}" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json"

const response = await fetch("https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users/{id}", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
},
});

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users/{id}",
    headers={'Content-Type':'application/json'},
)

print(response.json())

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "net/http"
    "io"
)

func main() {
    req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users/{id}", nil)
    req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")

    client := &http.Client{}
    resp, _ := client.Do(req)
    defer resp.Body.Close()

    body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
    fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Response
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